Lacanian
Origin
From Jacques_Lacan + -ian
Full definition of Lacanian
Adjective
Lacanian
- (psychoanalysis) Of, pertaining to, or resembling the psychoanalytical views of Jacques_Lacan (1901-1981).
- 2009, Wesley C. Swedlow, Against the Personification of Democracy: A Lacanian Critique of Political Subjectivity, Continuum International, p. 11,For him, then, the only truly liberating response is a Lacanian act, an attack on the fundamental fantasy of our current social configuration.